Google tells us there are more than two circular looms in the world

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22ci...

What is rare about it?

From the video, it appears that this loom has been specially constructed to keep the carbon fiber ribbon properly oriented as the spools move around.

This article is interesting in that it shows the minimum amount of information required for something to be called an "article". Any less, and it would actually start to suck in nearby information and eventually explode.

The article about the car itself has substance: http://jalopnik.com/5388538/2011-lexus-lfa-first-drive

Thanks for the link. I never truly appreciated how much hacking and pure engineering there was going on in the car market.

Toyota has had a long history with circular looms. Sakichi Toyoda invented the circular loom in 1906. The profits from his automatic loom business were used to start his son's automobile manufacturing company.

In other news, rare space station orbits the Earth. Is 'rare' really the best word for something like this?

Aren't socks and pantyhose woven on circular looms?

And the braid of coax cables.

Any idea how big the resulting weaved product is? I am having difficulty discerning scale....